Analysis Of The Music And Performance Of Chopin's "Polonets" (Op. 53)

Chopin is a renowned 19 th century Polish pianist,a composer and music critic,as well as one of the most significant representative figures of the Romantic era.Moreover,he was honored as the poet of piano.That the number and the genre of music works composed by him was without equal in the history of music.His works not only contain the Polish folk style,but also blazed new trails by adding romantic elements on the basis of the classical period style.Poetic singing,magnificent music form,perfect harmony effect and expressive emotion are integrated into the piano musical instrument,bringing the traditional genre a brand-new life and making his works the symbol of Polish national music and spirit.The touching melody,colorful harmony and dramatic tragedy feelings strengthen Chopin’s specialty as a musical poet.leaving behind precious art treasure and making a great contribution to the development of piano art in Europe of that period.The Polonaise in bA-flat major,Op.53 is a piece of heroic dance music,which is filled with patriotic emotions and it is a comparatively magnificent and splendid one among more than 10 pieces of Chopin’s Polonaise dance music.In this article,we want to explore the composer’s individual emotion by analyzing the following three dimensions: the music features of the works,creation technique,performance skills.Accordingly,we are able to elaborate the artistic value of the work from a deeper level.Furthermore,we hope that through our analysis of performance skill the players can have a better grasp of the composer’s emotion,style and technique when they performance it.